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Pitched four years for the Philadelphia Athletics, and then played shortstop for seven years for the Montreal Expos. Taught Rickey Henderson to steal a base. Taught Nolan Ryan to throw a punch. Taught Mickey Mantle to drink a beer. Threw one seven-hitter and seven no-hitters. Wonderboy was my creation, and first Jobu shrine was in my locker. Often called "the next Jed Lowrie". Always wear high socks and eyeblack. Prefer to slide headfirst. You can find me blogging about sports at Ladies... with 7 of the coolest ladies around, and also over at Babes Love Baseball with the triumverate of baseball babes.

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Gameday Open Thread: Yankees 6/11

Red Sox vs. New York Yankees
7:10 pm
Fenway Park - Boston, MA
SP: Brad Penny vs. CC Sabathia

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Fashion Police: All-Star BP Jerseys

It’s time once again for that annual ritual: the parade of the sometimes weird, sometimes fugly, always slightly crazy All-Star Game batting practice jerseys! Except this time, there’s a twist: the BP unis are actually… nice-looking. No, seriously.

The typography! The bat incorporated into the logo! The callback of the […]

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Seven.

SWING and a miss.
SWING and a miss.
SWING and a miss.
SWING and a miss.
SWING and a miss.
SWING and a miss.
SWING and a miss.
One for each Sox victory over the Yankees this year.
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10Jun2009 | Center Field | 1 comment | Continued

Gameday Open Thread: Yankees 6/10

Red Sox vs. New York Yankees
7:10 pm
Fenway Park - Boston, MA
SP: Tim Wakefield vs. Chien-Ming Wang

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I’m Still Calling It A No-Hitter

Last night was a glorious night to be at Fenway. Didn’t matter that the skies were dumping down a continuous sheet of rain, didn’t matter that the temperatures were April-ish numbers, didn’t matter that there were way too many fans in pinstripes slithering around. None of that mattered even the slightest, because of […]

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10Jun2009 | Center Field | 0 comments | Continued

Gameday Open Thread: Yankees 6/9

Red Sox vs. New York Yankees
7:10 pm
Fenway Park - Boston, MA
SP: Josh Beckett vs. AJ Burnett

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9Jun2009 | Center Field | 0 comments | Continued

Things That Are Lame

A dude from Connecticut who thinks that throwing some Kentucky blue grass seeds on the dirt at Fenway will somehow magically lead to Yankee grass sprouting there. Hey, genius: seeds need to be sown before they can grow– and we already use Kentucky blue grass anyway.
NESN vs. Comcast cat fight.
Kevin Youkilis trailing Mark Teixeira […]

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9Jun2009 | Center Field | 0 comments | Continued

Best Laid Plans (Video Overload)

So I had this fabulous idea to treat everyone to a handful of posts throughout the off-day yesterday in which I’d post random funny/interesting videos from the last few weeks of games. And then work tidal waved over my day, and all my carefully crafted plans fell by the wayside. FAILHAT.
Instead, I will […]

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9Jun2009 | Center Field | 0 comments | Continued

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Major league baseball players are a fiercely competitive bunch — they have to be, to rise from the ranks of lowly A-ball, all the way up through the minors and successfully make it onto a big league roster. So it should come as no surprise that when making important career-related decisions, such as what […]

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8Jun2009 | Center Field | 0 comments | Continued

Look! Over Here! Cute Things!

Instead of focusing on this:

How about we all focus on this:

Did that work? Did everyone manage to be distracted by Dice-K with his cute children, and and forget that we lost 2 of 3 to the Rangers? No? Well, it was worth a try.
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7Jun2009 | Center Field | 0 comments | Continued

Gameday Open Thread: Rangers 6/7

Red Sox vs. Texas Rangers
1:35 pm
Fenway Park - Boston, MA
SP: Daisuke Matsuzaka vs. Vicente Padilla

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Pair Of Aces

Anything you can do, I can do better…

I’m beginning to think John Farrell must have a giant “JOSH VS. JON” poster hung up on the wall in the clubhouse. You know, like the ones elementary school teachers use to track students’ progress, by awarding gold stars for accomplishing tasks? Except Farrell’s chart lists […]

7Jun2009 | Center Field | 0 comments | Continued